The next installment of the Fire Emblem franchise is on its way! Promising more awesome fire emblem action for 3ds owners! So, what's everyones tentative thoughts so far? I'm pretty happy personally, partly because Awakening was flawed but fun, and partly because I'm glad that the 3ds isn't turning in to a deadzone just yet.

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Ah, I will try and dispel my negativity. The style of the game did look quite cool, a sort of eastern theme that was touched on in Awakening....

There was just so much I didn't like about Awakening though, the pairing up system is completely unbalanced which almost negated the use of singular units. The maps were dull, mainly a scattering of forts and forests which had no implementation into the plot, coupled with the fact that the only 'victory' objectives were routing all units which is dull as hell and an excuse to implement lazy AI who bum rush you every map and have no strategic movement!

The ridiculous promotion system allowed anyone to be anything which is just ridiculous and promoted the use of grinding through 'skirmish' battles which were also shit. I'm going to go play Path of Radiance and cry tears of frustration now...

The ridiculous promotion system allowed anyone to be anything which is just ridiculous and promoted the use of grinding through 'skirmish' battles which were also shit. I'm going to go play Path of Radiance and cry tears of frustration now...

Yeah, I could do without this to be honest. I didn't mind the team-up mechanic though, especially considering the game's emphasis on relationships. I can't see them relying too heavily on that again.

Jokes aside it's not all that surprising they did another fire emblem over advance wars. The last Advance Wars tanked didn't it? It certainly didn't pull in the numbers awakening did at any rate, so I imagine advance wars currently resides in the same place F-zero does. And the gaming world is all the worse for it.

It would certainly help boost what is a meagre release list for 2015 for the 3DS. As we know, there's been a move towards publishers announcing games much closer to their release dates in recent years, too.

More variety in the map designs is something I'm looking for here. I really enjoyed Awakening, but the maps were pretty uninspired, most of them being open expanses of land or vertical struggles to the top. Compare that to the best of what Intelligent Systems have put out and it's pretty weak.

I'm really liking the look of the new visuals on this, too. The seamless change from tactical map view to battle scene still amazes me. Such a big step up from Awakening.